The Times Berlin correspondent contributes to Monday's issue an extremely
interesting sketch of Baron von Roggen- bach, formerly Foreign Minister of Baden, who died on Saturday last at the age of eighty-two. Roggenbach, a Roman Catholic, but, like Prince Hohenlohe, an opponent of Ultra- montanism, early forfeited the confidence of Bismarck by bie inability to acquiesce in all the moves of the Prussianising game. He was a sincere German Imperialist, but as a South German Liberal and an intimate friend of the Crown Prince (afterwards the Emperor Frederick) he excited the unrelenting antagonism of the Chancellor. Though he had withdrawn from public, life as far back as 1874, the possibility of his return to power in the reign of the Emperor Frederick stirred Bismarck to fresh animosity, culminating in the effort to implicate Roggenbach in the publication of the Emperor's posthumous diary by Professor Geffcken. The specific charge entirely failed, but Bismarck was successful in barring the door to any further official recognition of an able and patriotic statesman.
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